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Your signature, left on talk pages, is usually the first thing seen by users who meet you for the first time. As a result, many users choose to customise their signature, or 'sig'. These changes can vary from providing a link to your contributions page to completely redesigning the entire signature. This page will attempt to provide some helpful tips and advice for producing a unique signature.
Be sure to comply with WP:SIGAPP, a Wikipedia policy, which says "Your signature must not blink, scroll, or otherwise cause inconvenience to or annoy other editors."
Note that changing your signature will not change signatures that have already been produced, only ones that are created after save has been clicked.
Also note that the basics to changing the background of signatures is included on the Wikipedia:Signatures page (though more in-depth instructions are soon to follow)
UserBob currently has a very simple signature:
As a result, he would like to produce a more complicated signature.